Mali conflict: photos of Malian soldiers and prisoners in Gao, by Joel Saget

Nine prisoners, comprising seven Malian, one Nigerois and one Mauritanian, are taken out of a jail at the gendarmerie in Gao to be transferred on a military flight to Bamako, where they are to be judged on charges of belonging to the main Islamist armed group, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an Al-Qaeda offshootPicture: JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images